belated

President Day poetry.

 George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering 

~Bobbi Katz

I wonder what I would have said

if my dad asked me, 

do you know who cut down 

my pretty cherry tree?” 

I think I might have closed my eyes 

and thought a little bit 

about the herds of elephants 

I’d seen attacking it. 

I would have heard the rat-a-tat 

of woodpeckers, at least, 

or the raging roar of a charging boar

or some such other beast! 

Perhaps a hippopotamus 

with nothing else to do 

had wandered through our garden 

and stopped to take a chew. 

We all know George said, “Father, I cannot tell a lie.” 

Yet I can’t help but wonder 

Did he really try?

Here's to the month of 4-leaf clovers and to uncovering truth in whatever form we find it.